BIOGRAPHY

MC Vigilante (they/he) is an antidisciplinary art-making organism based in Providence, Rhode Island. MC’s digital paintings and experimental animations use compression as abstraction, presenting immaterial space as a site of potentiality. MC has recently exhibited work at the List Art Center, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, and Brown Science Center in Providence, RI. Their debut solo exhibition, QUANTA: Reflections on [Im]material Selfhood, opened in March 2022 at the List Art Center. MC was born in upstate New York and was raised by the internet. MC is graduating with degrees in Visual Art and Biology from Brown University, where they are currently an animator at SciToons.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Seven Months or Two Wet Feet is a place-based exploration of power, abandonment, and refuge along the Erie Canal. Painterly digital images and experimental computer animations will present a contemporary, multihyphenate vision of the canal, informed by personal experiences and historical research. MC will travel the entirety of the Erie Canal, documenting thousands of sites and scenes using digital images, video, and sound. Through a transformative process of algorithmic image manipulation, these field recordings will become richly detailed compositions that blur the digital-tactile divide. In 2023, Seven Months or Two Wet Feet will be published as a gallery exhibition and an accompanying artist book.